List of Indian mathematicians

Here is a chronology of the main Indian mathematicians:

Contents

1 BCE 2 0-1000 CE 3 1000CE-1800CE 4 Born in 1800s 5 Born in 1900s 6 See also

BCE

• Yajnavalkya, 1800 BC, the author of the altar mathematics of the Shatapatha Brahmana.
• Lagadha - Author of a 1350 BC text on Vedic astronomy
• Baudhayana, 800 BC
• Manava, 750 BC
• Apastamba, 700 BC
• Aksapada Gautama, 550 BC, Logician
• Katyayana, 400 BC
• Panini, 5th century BC
• Pingala, 5th century BC
• Bharata Muni, 450 BC

0-1000 CE

• Aryabhata - Astronomer who gave very accurate calculations for constants, 500 AD
• Varahamihira
• Bhaskara I, 620 AD
• Brahmagupta - Helped bring the concept of zero into arithmetic,
• Virahanka (8th century) - Gave explicit rules for the Fibonacci series.
• Shridhara (between 650-850) - Gave a good rule for finding the volume of a sphere.
• Lalla, 720-790
• Govindsvamin (9th century)
• Virasena
• Mahavira (9th century)
• Jayadeva (9th century)
• Prithudaka, 9th century
• Halayudha, 10th century

• Aryabhata II, 920-1000
• Vateshvara (10th century)

1000CE-1800CE

• Brahmadeva, 1060-1130
• Sripati, 1019-1066
• Gopala - Studied Fibonacci numbers before Fibonacci
• Hemachandra - Also studied Fibonacci numbers before Fibonacci
• Bhaskara
• Gangesha Upadhyaya, 13th century, Logician, Mithila school
• Pakshadhara, sone of Gangehsa, Logician, Mithila school
• Shankara Mishra, Logician, Mithila school
• Narayana Pandit
• Madhava - Considered the father of mathematical analysis
• Parameshvara (1360-1455)
• Nilakantha Somayaji - Mathematician and Astronomer
• Mahendra Suri (14th century)
• Shankara Variyar (c. 1530)
• Vasudeva Sarvabhauma, 1450-1525, Logician, Navadvipa school
• Raghunatha Shiromani, (1475-1550), Logician, Navadvipa school
• Mathuranatha Tarkavagisha, c. 1575, Logician, Navadvipa school
• Jyesthadeva
• Jagadisha Tarkalankara, c. 1625, Logician, Navadvipa school
• Gadadhara Bhattacharya, c. 1650, Logician, Navadvipa school
• Munishvara (17th century)
• Kamalakara (1657)
• Jagannatha (1730)

Born in 1800s

• Jagdish Chandra Bose
• Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920)
• Satyendra Nath Bose
• C.V. Raman
• P.C. Mahalanobis
• Meghnad Saha
• A. A. Krishnaswami Ayyangar

Born in 1900s

• S. Chandrasekhar
• Raj Chandra Bose, 1902-
• D.K. Ray-Chaudhuri
• Harish-Chandra
• C.Radhakrishna Rao
• G.N. Ramachandran, 1922-2001
• George Sudarshan
• Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar
• Vijay Kumar Patodi
• Narendra Karmarkar
• M.V. Subbarao

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See also

• Mathematicians born in India

See also: List of Indian mathematicians, 10th century, 1350 BC, 1360, 1455, 14th century, 1530, 1657, 1730